The Beginner's Guide on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

The Beginner's Guide is a story rich, walking simulator and narration game developed and published by Everything Unlimited Ltd..
Released on October 01st 2015 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain and Russian.

It has received 21,885 reviews of which 19,266 were positive and 2,619 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10
  • Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Video card must be 128 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b (ATI Radeon X800 or higher / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or higher / Intel HD Graphics 2000 or higher - *NOT* an Intel Express graphics card).
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X 10.8 or higher required
  • Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04
  • Processor: Dual core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600 (Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11), OpenGL 2.1
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
  • Sound Card: OpenAL Compatible Sound Card

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025
Stop reading reviews of this game! ANY REVIEW YOU READ may ruin the experience for you. This game is best experienced BLIND. This game requires a level of critical thinking and reflection. It's important to play this game in one go, like watching a movie. Overall, I absolutely love it. There are so many interpretations and meanings you can draw from it. There are many playthroughs you can find on YouTube, and every single person who played it drew a slightly different message from the game. I haven't stopped thinking about it since I played it a month ago. I guess that means it succeeded. Well done.
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Dec. 2024
This game seems like it would be the most pretentious game ever, until you realize its the complete opposite. With that said, I need to work on something. For myself that is.
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Nov. 2024
I'll keep it short and sweet with a few quick bullet points. 1. You should go into this game as blind as possible. It is a different story the more context about it you have. 2. This game affected me more viscerally than any other. It is the most impactful game I have ever played. 3. This game is especially impactful if you are someone engaged in game development, or any sort of creation. 4. The game lasts ~100 minutes (exactly, if you're me), and feels like a thousand sucker punches to the gut. I cannot recommend it enough. Please play this game.
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June 2024
I thank PirateSoftware for the recommendation. This game is difficult to describe without spoiling, but I'll do my best. This game is a love letter, apology, and attempt at soul searching for understanding while summarizing the gaming industry's relationship between community and creator, as well as highlighting how emotion and health can interact with the creative process. Now for the spoilered portion. The approach to understanding social validation is strong, especially in an age of technology where many pride themselves in being accepted, praised, or thinking they've contributed to it. The feeling that if invested in, you also made something is a mentality that stands long, and here it shows itself as the penultimate story. A true story around the unintentional poisoning of the creative process from a fan/peer to a creator, and in turn ruining the very thing they enjoyed. The 17th chapter's reveal made my heart sink. I rarely feel moved by a game, and even fewer times will I ever write a review, even so, this game is heartfelt in it's way.
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April 2024
I have to thank PirateSoftware for the recommendation. I feel that most people will have a different takeaway upon completing this game. For me, it's realizing that I should be creating things for myself and rather not worry what others will think of it as long as it's something I can be proud of. Lacking the motivation and constantly wondering "does this suck" affected my ability to write and create videos I enjoyed doing. I needed to remember the reason I was doing them was because I liked doing it for me. This was a great experience.
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The Beginner's Guide
8.6
19,266
2,619
Online players
8
Developer
Everything Unlimited Ltd.
Publisher
Everything Unlimited Ltd.
Release 01 Oct 2015
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